Patent EA-001295-B1 (EA)
Title: Integrated cooking and cutting instrument for fast food doner kebab and method therefor
IPC: A47J/
Filed: 1998-04-03
Abstract: 1. Integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument for obtaining cooked doner meat of standard form and cooking degree, ready to serve, characterised in that it comprises 5 separate units having separate functions working in an integrated way with each other, comprising: 1) Meat box (1) (Figures 1, 2, 3 ,4, 7 and 15), 2) Cooking group (16) (Figures 10, 11), 3) Rotating group (17) (18) (22) (23) (24) (25) (26) (Figures 12, 13 and 14), 4) Cutting group (27) (28) (30) (32) (Figures 19, 20, 21), 5) Central command and (time/speed/amount/process) tuning table (Figure 23). 2. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claim 1 characterised by a meat box (1) comprising a meat box (1) with an interior wall (7) located in it, a mobile pushing plate (9) forming the rear side of this interior wall (7), and pins (2) (3) located on the lower and upper exterior surfaces of the meat box (1) facilitating the positioning of the carrier chassis on the seats (19) on the lower (17) and upper (18) frames of the rotating group (Figure 12). 3. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 and 2 characterised by placing the meat block (8A) to be cooked within the interior wall (7), and locating the interior wall (7) in the meat box (1) so that the front side (8) of the meat is open (Figure 3). 4. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 3 characterised by a interior wall (7) holding the meat block (8A) to be cooked having any desired edge shape so that the meat block (8A) inside the interior wall (7) could be obtained in any edge shape ready to serve. 5. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 4 characterised by an interior wall (7) having a rear side comprising a flat mobile pushing plate (9). 6. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 5 characterised by a mobile pushing plate (9) with edges having the same form as the edges of the interior wall (7) so that the pushing plate (9) can move forward and backward inside the interior wall (7) at a right angle. 7. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 6 characterised by a mobile pushing plate (9) which each time pushes the meat block (8A) to be cooked 3 mm outside of the open front side of the meat box (1) placed inside the interior wall (7) so that the front side of the meat which is cooked and ready to serve is projecting outside the meat box (1) (Figure 15) and ready for cutting. 8. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 7 characterised by a mobile pushing plate (9) having resilient arms (10) behind, which after the meat block inside the interior wall (7) is pushed 3 mm outside the meat box (1), open rearwards to enter the gear slots (6) arranged at the interior side of the rear side (4) of the meat box (1), thus, preventing the mobile pushing plate (9) from slipping back and ensuring that the mobile pushing plate (9) remains in its place. 9. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 8 wherein the meat box (1), interior wall (7) and the mobile pushing plate (9) is manufactured from stainless steel. 10. An integrated doper cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 9 characterised by a meat box (1) preferably having dimensions of 10 cm x 60 cm with a depth of 15 cm. 11. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 10 characterised by a meat box (1) having a lower pin (2) and an upper pin (3) in the middle of the each lower and upper exterior surfaces thereof, to facilitate seating them on the rotating group (Figure 12) and its lower (17) and upper (18) frames, and also having 2 holes (5) at the lower and upper parts of the back side wall. 12. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 11 characterised by cooking group (Figure 11) comprising 4, 5 or 7 radian or LPG cookers (16) standing vertically on a pentagonal, hexagonal or octagonal arrangement as desired/needed on the central fixed bar (11). 13. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 12 characterised by cookers (16) having the same height as the meat box (1). 14. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 13 characterised by the Central Command and Tuning Table (Figure 23) able to control the cooking temperature of each cooker (16) in tenors of the desired cooking temperature. 15. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 14 characterised by providing a forward movement to the mobile pushing plate (9) inside the interior wall (7) towards the open front side (8) with the forward movement of 2 pistons (12) connected to the fixed bar (11) at the centre of the rotating group, and their pushing arms (13). 16. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 15 characterised by a rotating group (Figure 12) comprising a carrier chassis (Figures 12, 13 and 14) consisting of two frames, one lower (17) and one upper (18) preferably, arranged in a pentagonal, hexagonal or octagonal way according to desire or need, connected to each other from the comers by thin bars (21) which in turn are connected to a rotating exterior bar (22) encasing the central fixed bar (11) and to a ring (23) again encasing the fixed bar, with horizontal arms (20). 17. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 15 characterised by a rotating group having a carrier chassis (Figures 12, 13, 14) with seats (19) on the lower (17) and upper (18) frames thereof to seat the meat blocks. 18. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 17 characterised by placing the meat box (1) on the canter chassis (Figures 13, 14) and the rotating group by engagement of the lower (2) and upper (3) pins of the meat box (1) in the seats (19) on the lower (17) and upper (18) frames. 19. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 18 characterised by turning the meat box (1) with the cooked meat at the open front side (8) at the cutting station without a cooker (15) 180 degree  around its own axis for cutting the cooked front side (8) of the meat and facilitating this turning by the action of the rotating arm (14) connected to the central fixed bar (11) of the rotating group (Figures 10, 11). 20. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 19 wherein the turning of the meat box (1) around its axis with 180 degree  through the connection of the rotating arm (14) which is placed on the fixed bar (11), to the rectangularly pointed upper pin of the meat box (1) is controlled from the Central Command and Tuning panel (Figure 23). 21. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 20 wherein a single motor (24) with a gear group (25) (26) provides the rotation of the exterior bar (22) around its axis of the rotating exterior bar (22) connected to the lower (17) and upper (18) frames on which the meat boxes (1) are placed (Figures 12, 13, 14), which is encasing the faced bar (11). 22. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 21 wherein the fuming of each metal box (1)on the rotating group, which group carries on the lower (17) and upper (18) frames the meat boxes (1), depending on the number of cooking stations on the integrated instrument (Figure 16, 17, 18), is controlled in terms of time, speed and degree of turning, so that each metal box (1) faces each cooker station in a step-by-step manner by means of a single motor (24) and a gear group (25) (26) directed by the central command and tuning table. 23. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 22 wherein the meat block (8A) inside the meat box (1) is pushed 3 mm forward towards the open front side (8), when it is cooked and ready to be cut, thus, preparing the cooked front side of the meat (8) for cutting. 24. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 23 characterised by a cutting group comprising a cutter unit having a cutting motor (28) and a rotating cutter/slicing knife (27) (Figure 19) and a fixed horizontal plane (32) arranged in front of it and a ring (30) facilitating the connection to the fixed bar (29) carrying them and the motion of the cutting group around its axis (Figure 22) and the up and down motion on the fixed bar (29) (Figures 20, 21). 25. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 24 characterised by having a horizontal plane (32) in front of the arm (33) which carries the mobile cutting unit (Figure 19) and is connected to the ring (33), for the cooked meat slices to lie as they are cut, and by the length of this horizontal plane (32) being the same as the length of meat box (1). 26. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 25 characterised in that during the cutting position (A) the disc knife (27) connected to the ring on the cutting unit moves downwards along the fixed bar (29) through the cutting process and then moves upwards to its original situation and this vertical movement in the cutting position (A) is controlled via the Central Command and Tuning Table (Figure 23). 27. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 26 characterised by bringing the cutting group to standstill (B) (Figure 22) position by fuming 90 degree  around the axis of the fixed bar (29) after it returns to its first position at the end of the cutting process (Figure 22). 28. An integrated doner cooking and cutting instrument according to claims 1 to 27 wherein the process of the initiation of the cutting, the downward movement on the fixed bar (2) during the cutting process at the position (A), the upward movement after the cutti